Sep 18 2011 8 Comments By Ciara Panacchia

This freebie features a vintage-themed checkered pattern set on top of an aged paper background. It comes in 30 color combinations and in JPG format. The files are very large (3600x3600px) and high-resolution.

Jul 16 2011 14 Comments By Ciara Panacchia

This free vintage-themed texture pack features a star pattern on aged paper. The texture comes in 20 wonderful color variations. At 3600x3600px and in JPG format, the files are large and high-resolution. The textures can be used as backgrounds or to add textures to designs, art projects, illustrations, photos, and more!

Jun 28 2011 24 Comments By Ciara Panacchia

This freebie features a vintage-themed starburst, set on top of an aged paper background. This free texture pack comes in 36 color combinations and in JPG format. They’re very large (3600x3600px) and high-resolution.

Jun 4 2011 94 Comments By Ciara Panacchia

This free set of 20 vintage/aged paper textures contains textures that are each 3600x3600px in size, high-resolution, and in JPG format. I use textures a lot in my illustrations and in my tutorials, so I made a variety of colors so that I would have a library to choose from. Now, I’m sharing them with you. Use these textures as backgrounds or for adding textured elements in your designs, illustrations, photos, and so forth.

Nov 26 2010 17 Comments By Ciara Panacchia

Some common posters I keep seeing on Flickr are reinventions of movie posters, like the ones by Ibraheem Youssef, based on movies such as Scarface and The Big Lebowski. Most of the posters are very iconic in style, with some nice textures to simulate a vintage or minimalist look. Creating artwork inspired by movies is a good practice for creative thinking, and this is what we’ll try to do in this Photoshop tutorial, with the movie, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Jul 27 2010 51 Comments By Ciara Panacchia

In college in Waterford, Ireland, one of our class projects was called “Techniques.” The brief was to become familiar with every printing technique we could and show them through physical pieces. It was a fun project. However, when you leave school, you don’t always get the chance to work with these really amazing printing techniques or even figure them into your budget, but what I will talk about in this guide are popular and affordable. Consider them in your next print project!

May 26 2010 81 Comments By Ciara Panacchia

With this guide, we are going to examine ways to prepare files for print, covering applications in the Adobe Creative Suite. The examples used are for InDesign, but can apply to Photoshop and Illustrator. This is a basic guide aimed to help people just starting out in the print design business or are looking to learn more about preparing files better to send to press.